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Exactly!
My favourite example of it is Not Me (I must be in the minority but when it was released simultaneously with Bad Buddy, I was surprised that it did not have more hype than BB). The novel is simply 🗑️. What was left from it are the names, beating of Black and the boys names (in the novel there were no girls + Black ended up with Gramm). There was no fight agains the man (or for marriage equality), Sean was from a complete (older brother included) and wealthy family, Sean figured Whitenin like 5 seconds but kept playing dumb to get into his pants (which was at beast doubt-con 🤢)... because he was kind of White's stalker (White had some accident as a kid and lost his memory that included Sean), Sean and Black were roommates and our final villain was barely a footnote on that story. White basically started as naïve dummy and ended as one. This is how much one can change the script and for the better.

I am re-watching (speed run) but still every time I see the mother, my blood boils. I even had to stop EP22 when she was blaming everyone around her except the real culprit - her.
"Dad should have told you" - lady, it's you who needed pick up and your son was supposed to do it, so he should be the 1st to know that his help is not needed. Is it so hard to send him a text? Even if it's too hard - pick up the phone when he calls you or call him back. Yes, dad only has 3 kids but you have more, so you should have been more responsible 🤦‍♀️
Is there like a Golden Raspberry equivalent of "mother of the year" (becaus she is definitely in the run)?

Highly recommend (but perhaps not for everyone): Killer and Healer (CH). It's set in the 1920'-30'. We have 2 couples: police officer + doctor and "business man" + opera singer. Doctor accidentally gets caught by the police officer and his team during a raid (I think the bad guys were selling opium), gets thrown in the jail overnight and when he returns his little sister (whom he raises, as their parents are gone) is nowhere to be found, so he searchers for her which lead him to Hong Kong where his path crosses again with the police officer (who is there to investigate opium trade). Opera singer is a patient of the doctor and on friendly terms with police officer. Police officer is friends with "business man" and they once go to opera where the said singer performs. Singer has tragic past (and I would say present as well) but he wants to get to the bottom of what happened.
Additionally there are 3 FL and they really wrote them well - FL1 is even well liked by the viewers (even though she was kind of love rival for 1st couple), FL2 is kind of "woman scorned" and FL3 starts quite annoying but grew on me (and as a character).

Here is a big spoiler: in this series heads roll like in Game of Thrones.

I could ask you the same question.
Besides this point - can only people who read the novel complain or are you forbidding everyone? 🙄
I read Counterattack and still I wish for more screen time for 2nd CP, so why can't I hope for more here?

EP19 - for me same as in the novel you can feel the undertones of romantic love the older brother feels for WS (and considering the jealousy WS was showing before it might be reciprocated - just WS needs to be self-sabotaging so his word are what they are). I wonder if they are actually blood related (I don't remember the book stating that they weren't but just wondering). Definitely big bro understands WS the best and knows tlwhat he actually needs.

And you could have not written the last 3 words 🙄 (or even 6 - to quote They Might Be Giants: "you're not the boss of me").

Yes, I so want more of the 2nd CP but we only get crumbs. WSL is blind to his own feelings and really needs a push. HY definitely knows GT secret and is toying with them a bit.

I am on EP23 and once again the cursing women use against eachother are just crazy.
I've seen several times (in different stories) women A calling woman B slut, when it was the guy who was into B and B was just existing (often totally not interested in the guy nor was she trying to use her "feminine wiles" on him for [purpose]). Woman B might even not be interested in any guy, so where does the word comes from here?
But in this series? The jealous woman could actually reasonably call FL a slut (in the middle of the night, traveling on a horse with a man) but she called her hateful 🤦‍♀️ The only person she could call that is the man in question after he told her off a few hours before.
I must say that the instant hatred towards FL is getting old.

Another thing is them doing Clark Kent/Superman with women dressed in male clothing. At least give them glasses to make it more believable 🤦‍♀️ (if the argument is the not bound hair than somebody should really tell that to the 2nd FL, the princess)

1st who was shooting was the guy in the dormitory with thin walls (he started shooting the whole dormitory but I think he was also the guy from the 1st scene where he went to cram school and shoot everybody in a classroom and then himself), 2nd was the guy with ankle bracelet/locator (was no parole, I think) who was creeping on the girl changing his water filter (he went close to military base to practice and then shoot the police precinct).
They were both old enough (especially the one with ankle monitor) to have to do the mandatory training (I think men have to do it till 28).
And let's not forget our band of "cleaners" who went around collecting the weapons (although I think I heard one of them saying something about not being in military yet).

About the boys: Moon Baek organized some fight close to the place the boys were eating, then got BB gun from BB shooting place near by and started shooting the fighting guys and acting cool while doing it. After that the thinner boy approached him and asked if he can teach him how to shoot. He took the boys to the BB place and was teaching the slimmer one, then approached the one with the glasses and offered to teach him as well.

EP8 - Mr. Kim vs Kong Seok Ho
It was like watching "The Shooting AKA Dear Sister" by The Lonely Island/SNL 🤣

I watch for Moon Baek - I like them unhinged 🤭

For me Lee Do gets at some point too much robot like and I need something to balance that.

Additionally later episodes go into people who were trying to do it the right way but we're bullied mercilessly which is an important topic in Korean society.

I also think that when it came to the school EP (I just finished EP07) you also saw that nobody was doing anything about the issue. The scene where they were bullied behind the school and then lying looking up: from almost every window above somebody was watching but didn't even call the teacher. Teachers (we mostly saw one being totally useless) were deliberately not seeing the issue: how can guy constantly slip and pour the food exactly on head of another or even when issue was actually reported just ignored it... I think this also made viewers more desensitised to "bystanders" being hurt, as they weren't innocent.About justice prevailing: I read that minors get much, much lighter sentences then adults (this sparked quite a big critique after some of the especially brutal cases).I don't know if you saw The Glory but it goes more in-depth about the issue of bullying, it's long-standing effects and punishment for the offenders. Another one is Juvenile Justice, where main character is a judge in juvenile court.

I am starting EP8 (so right after the school EP) but I remember that while I was watching The Glory, people were discussing that punishment for even serious crimes in Korea but done by underage perpetrators is quite light, so they might not get comparable punishment to that any of the adults would have gotten.

About the using the guns comfortably: so far (I am starting EP8) most of the users were men and there is mandatory military service in Korea, so they all should have at least basic training in them (one of them was even shown practicing). Those that were not old enough got crash course with BB but for me - them not basically falling to their buts from recoil from high power weapon - was not really realistic (and how did he manage to close all of the doors from outside and still be inside?).

EP10
Why did FL1 apologised for considering ML1 a stalker? He totally was! Just because he was doing it for her sake doesn't make it not being "stalkerish". I bet ther are plenty of stalkers who think that they are doing it just to protect their victim...
Ho did ML track them down in the amusement park? And was physically able to fight?!
Additionally I would say that the storyline of the worker who got FL1 cancer was a bit more fleshed out in KR: it was shown how she was overworked not only at work but at home as well, so the comment about husband doing housework made more sense (especially since the restaurant was from her parents, I think, so in case of divorce he would be left with nothing).
I am also not sure how FL1 decide to get into sweets making - during the 2nd life it was ML1 who was cooking 🤔

Disregard my venting - I enjoyed it 😁

EP9 behind me and honestly I liked a bit more how the whole 2nd CP ended in original - fighting. It was nice here that he understood his shortcomings and such but I think I liked FL2 to be more "active" as his wife. She had so much spunk, tenaciousness and would not let MIL trample over her etc. Her letting FL1 go (during the fight in the snow) was also OOC, IMO (I might have forgotten if such a thing happened in the original).
I also remember when the whole scene of 2nd CP fighting happened I was on pins and needles because we got a preview of it and it was not clear till the end who would win.

Let me also rant about the whole scene here - he had a lot of time to do anything before the crash (considering how long he was taking with FL1). He could have called police and they could have told him to... shift the gears down, for example. Plus - how did everybody hear the crash trough her phone? I seemed (from their facial expressions) like the could hear the whole conversation when they were across the room!

Oh, I think I saw in the past stuff like that 🤔 - they should really fix it.

Have you mixed the pages? I am not sure what your statement about Revenged Love (RL) has to my opinion about ABO Desire.
If we are talking about using other people in RL then the guys love to "Chinese whispers" it. Let's look at CC trying to "get certificate" with WSW: he threatened (=manipulated because lets face it - he would never "jumped" him) doc, who manipulated (pretending to be depressed and at the end of the rope) WSW, who in turn went to GC, which GC used: WSW returned to doc and we know how that ended.
Let's also not be to too charitable to SW - he wants to use WSW to clear his name and left this (if I remember correctly from the novel - fake) medical document on purpose. Not to mention that he started this whole mess years ago because he was jealous of CC and GC bond 🤦‍♀️

Yes and no, IMO (it's only about 2nd CP as I agree about HY). GT started the whole thing years before meeting SW (he was still a child in the flashback and I think he met SW in highschool) but being close to SW is definitely a motivator to continue (and in unhealthy way). He is however (so far) not doing it to trap SW. It's unrequited love for GT but for HY... I would call it obsession. At least GT was with SW for the past 10 years and knew him as a person (not the nicest to him but some people kind of feel like they deserve to be treated badly, so basing on his upbringing it's understandable) but HY met SS 15 years ago, 1 time, for a few minutes (I don't know if love at first sight would be possible and last this strongly... especially since you can cherish your 1st love but meeting them year later, as an adult tend do remove rose coloured glasses).
I am not saying that once SW and GT figure stuff between them, the fact that GT was harming himself is not going to haunt SW but I don't think that GT ever thought that them being together is realistic. I also think he might have been using the suppressants regardless if he met SW or not (perhaps not that mercilessly).

For me the major difference is that HY has malicious intent for using of the suppressants and does it to manipulate SS into relationship with him (let's not forget that he is a sadist as well). GT started it before meeting SW, would have done it regardless IMO (but knowing SW opinion about omegas it's added bonus for him), that lets GT be close to SW without actually trying to get together.

I am not claiming that SW is a green forest - he clearly isn't and he is in debt to HY, so he feels like he has to go along with his scheme, I think (that is in no way excusing his behaviour) but at least he is not trying to manipulate GT (so far). He is clearly jealous of the "omega" (and HY 🤦‍♀️) and harsh with words + lied about the money but is mostly straightforward with GT (his EQ is simply below the sea level).